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Registered charity · West Midlands

Black Country Touring

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £680k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall, Wolverhampton
Website
www.bctouring.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Black Country Touring
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£680k£617k
  • 2024£549k£556k
  • 2023£475k£474k
Earlier years
  • 2022£393k£350k
  • 2021£300k£236k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 3% · Government grants 50%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, IMPROVE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND PRACTICE OF THE ARTS BY FOSTERING AND PROMOTING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARTISTIC KNOWLEDGE, TASTE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPLICATION OF THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, TO PROVIDE ARTS BASED ACTIVITIES AND ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION BY ALL SECTIONS OF THE COMMUNITY IN SUCH ACTIVITIES IN THE WOLVERHAMPTON, WALSALL, DUDLEY AND SANDWELL METROPOLITAN BOROUGH AND THEIR ENVIRONS

Grants received

10 grants · £946,669 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £614,450 (2 grants)
  • Postcode Culture Trust · £225,000 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £78,000 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £29,219 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • Postcode Culture Trust £75,0002024-11-25
  • Postcode Culture Trust £75,0002023-11-29
  • Postcode Culture Trust £75,0002022-11-07
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £307,2252022-10-13
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £307,2252022-10-13
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

8 trustees on the board

5.6y median 3y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

8
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 7Education/training 2General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 10Health and social care 2Education 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£680k latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

2.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.1 in 2021

10 from 9 in 2024
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
53%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1080608
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 8 OCTOBER 1997 as amended on 02 Oct 2018
Companies House
Company number 03446320 · Active
Contact on the register
01215337129 · hello@bctouring.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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